Improvement in fluting-irons



W. I. MCCAUSLAND.

FLUTING-IRQN. 230173.452. Patented June 6, 187B.

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WILLIAM I. MOOAUSLAND, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTING-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,452 dated J une 6,1876; application filed January 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM I. MGGAUS- LAND,of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in combined tinting andsmoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving aheated metallic block which will raise the shell to the propertemperature for smoothing or fluting.

The nature of the invention consists in certain improvements in theconstruction of fluting and smoothing irons, combined, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a sad-iron of the usualwell-known form, but of considerable thickness, the interior of which ishollow, and designed to receive a metallic heating-block, B, ofcorresponding form with the said hollow. This iron is designed to beoperated by means of a handle, 0, which is pivoted in any suitablemanner at a to the front end, and at a to the rear end of the said iron,so that the said handle may be turned in suitable position for theconvenient operation of either the smoothingsurfaces 1) or'theflirting-surface 0. The rear vertical arm (1 of handle 0 sustains aspringlatch, D, which is provided with a spur, 6, extending through thesaid arm, and engaging with a perforation, f, made in the rear wall ofthe iron, as shown in Fig. 2. These perforations are cut in the arc of acircle described, with a radius equal to the distance from pivot a ofhandle 0 to the center of spur e, and at angle of ninety degrees fromeach other, the perforations being three in number, and each onearranged in reference to a smoothing and to the fluting surface.

The fluting-surface is cast upon a side, E,

of the iron, which is hinged in any suitable manner to the apex or frontend of the same, and is held shut by means of a pin, 9, passing throughregistering-perforations formed in a flange, k, on the hinged sideand inthe iron, as shown in Fig. 2. The fluted side E is detachably secured tothe iron by means of an angular bolt, F, one arm of which is sprung overa pin, p, in the said side, and is thus prevented from casualdetachment.

When this bolt F is withdrawn the fluted side E of the iron may beremoved and replaced by another having a finer or a coarser nature, anda single iron is thus rendered capable of doing every description offluting, since any description of fluting-surface may be heated by asingle iron, when secured thereto, as above described.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Thehollow iron A, having the smoothing-faces b, detachable hinged side E,provided with the tinting-surface 0, and rear-end face having the spacedperforations f arranged as set forth, in combination wit-h the pivotedhandle O and spring-latch D, provided with a spur, e, substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the hollow iron A, the hinged detachable side E,having a fluting-surface, 0, and pin engaging with the detachableangular bolt F, substantially as described, and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM IVE-NHOE MCCAUSLAND.

Witnesses:

S. W. WILLIAMS, W. H. MILLER.

